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  • adjective superlative form of wary: most wary.

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Examples

  • At high tide and with a swift current, even the wariest boatman can have his craft smashed asunder in the mill race that forms between the bridge supports.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • At high tide and with a swift current, even the wariest boatman can have his craft smashed asunder in the mill race that forms between the bridge supports.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • THE SITUATION: These are the wariest birds you'll hunt all year.

    Three Affordable Decoy Spreads 2008

  • To catch the biggest, wariest crappies, though, sometimes you need to do less.

    25 Killer Spring Tips for Bass, Trout, Crappie, Walleys, and Pike 2005

  • For where a man cannot choose, or vary in particulars, there it is good to take the safest, and wariest way, in general; like the going softly, by one that cannot well see.

    The Essays 2007

  • Only one chance of victory is left to me; the cunning and patience with which bird-catchers at last entrap the wariest birds, the swiftest, the most capricious, and the rarest.

    Honorine 2007

  • Perhaps the most secretive, and certainly the wariest of our wildlife, is the cougar, or mountain lion.

    Rural Heartbeats 2007

  • There was no deceiving this man, who seemed to possess a power of detecting the secrets of the wariest heart.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • Only one chance of victory is left to me; the cunning and patience with which bird-catchers at last entrap the wariest birds, the swiftest, the most capricious, and the rarest.

    Honorine 2007

  • A pitiless disputant, who knows nothing, but the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached; whose temper was imperturbable; whose dreadful logic was always leisurely and sportive; so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.

    Representative Men 2006

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